Episode

What does the fiasco surrounding HS2 say about this country's ability to build large projects?

Podcast

Iain Dale - The Whole Show

Published

May 19, 2026

Duration seconds

8962

Processing state

not_requested

Canonical source

http://www.lbc.co.uk/

Audio

https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/47ef6e14-8cbd-417c-a4fb-8146fc3f589e.mp3?aw_0_1st.showid=a5d9532f-07eb-41fb-ac51-eb42b11c8731&aw_0_1st.episodeid=47ef6e14-8cbd-417c-a4fb-8146fc3f589e

JSON

/v1/public/podcasts/iain-dale-the-whole-show-898144/episodes/what-does-the-fiasco-surrounding-hs2-say-about-this-country-s-ability-to-build-large-projects

Markdown

/podcast/iain-dale-the-whole-show-898144/what-does-the-fiasco-surrounding-hs2-say-about-this-country-s-ability-to-build-large-projects.md

Actions

• POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/iain-dale-the-whole-show-898144/episodes/what-does-the-fiasco-surrounding-hs2-say-about-this-country-s-ability-to-build-large-projects/transcription-requests
  Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
• GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/iain-dale-the-whole-show-898144/what-does-the-fiasco-surrounding-hs2-say-about-this-country-s-ability-to-build-large-projects.md
  Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

What does the fiasco surrounding HS2 say about this country's ability to build large projects? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the public law barrister and author Marina Wheeler KC, MPs Luke Charters from Labour and Rebecca Smith from the Conservatives, plus the journalist Christina Patterson.